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Increasing numbers of Kilkenny families are eschewing turkey in favour of goose as their bird of choice on the table this Christmas.

Friday July 1 could be remembered as the day Croagh Patrick broke all records. A group of hardy souls have been in training for the past four months and are now ready to set a few records straight. The group aim to climb up and down the mountain 12 times with three objectives in mind. The first is a Guinness World record attempt for the highest metres ascended and descended in a 24 hour period. The second is to break the national record of nine climbs on the holy mountain in one day, and thirdly to climb more metres than Everest, and go beyond the endurance required climbing the highest mountain in the world, and to achieve it without leaving the country.

Staff at Kilkenny’s family resource centres are hopeful this week that following a visit from Pat Carey, minister of community, equality and gaeltacht affairs, the future may be a little brighter for the troubled centres.

Competitive rowing had been taking place on the Corrib for many years when the Ancient Order of Hibernians decided to form a new club in 1910. They got local contractor Walter Flaherty (who had already built the Corrib Club) to build a wooden clubhouse on the site of the present Galway Rowing Club. It was tarred each year up to 1970 in order to preserve the wood, and so it became known as ‘the Blackening Box’. In that year also there was a dispute in Saint Patrick’s Rowing Club and a number of oarsmen left and joined the new club.

To mark the successful completion of the Integrated Area Plan (IAP), Minister John McGuinness last Friday unveiled a plaque at the site of one of the plan’s most important projects, Kilkenny’s newest youth facility, ‘ The Drum.’

The Association of County and City Councils conference is to take place in Kilkenny this weekend at the Ormonde Hotel.

Kilkenny Local Authorities is to lose one of its most popular officials at the end of November, when director of service, Tony Walsh is to leave his position following 10 years in his role at Kilkenny County Council.

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New drinking bye-laws that will govern the county‘s four biggest towns are to be written up by the local authorities in coming months.